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To surpress a gun with small arms fire ,,, you realy ought to hit them from two directions, A split squad would have been a good idea,,, Also the freak incident factor plays a part in CM. Think of it as factors outside the scope of the imediate battle,,,,, the can of bad sardines your troops ate yesterday, the death of a popular and respected officer last week, these things are factored into the game as miscelanius factors that can slant the outcome of a battle,, and you have no control over them,,,

For every conquered people, the price for resistance is high to the point of being total, The germans punnished warsaw the same way that any conqueror punnishes a rebelious city, and although the conquerer will brag about his "glorious" accomplishment afterwards,,, he never admits how utterly helpless the rebels were,

In real life the Italians were very good soldiers, The Soviets respected them deeply, but Italian equipment was awfull, the infantry was armed with a 6.5 mm rifle, the smg's were cheap and fragile, artilery was in short supply, vehicles and armor was a joke, most Italians were chronicly short of ammo, and were starving on their feet, because their own quartermasters corps was totaly corrupt and incompetent. the quality of officers was variable, but tended towards crappy,,,, the typical Italian infantryman had all the odds stacked against him but he was a natural optimist, and he loved a good scrap, The Italians were general fairly tough as people,,, mostly peasants and fishermen, they were not well educated, but they were smart, The traditional Italian sense of comunity meant that units tended to be very cohesive, they held together in adverse conditions, But in CM they suck,,,,,,,

Aircraft are a roving menace in CM,,, Ground forces have NO control over aircraft, the best you can hope for is that your planes will target more enemys than freindlys,, and maybe that when enemy planes bomb the enemy,, that your own units dont get caught in the blast Always assume that the pilots are gung ho idiots who will attact anything they can see,,, because this is EXACTLY what air power is when used in ground support ,

The trouble is, that having instilled a sense of nationalism in colonized and formerly colonized peoples, the democracy empires are now facing nationalistic peoples, who want to be regarded as people, While it was once common practice to buy the loyalty of local chieftans to get the colonized to submit,, the democracy both A) does not attempt to buy loyalty, but only demands obediance ,, and B)treats the conquered peoples worse than any former colonial master ever did, while expecting the people to love them for it,,, You cannot parade old grandmother Shamilah through the streets of the city naked ,, and expect her grandsons to not seek vengeance, those grandsons WILL find an ak47,, or a musket, or a rock,,, and fight back,, And all the rhetoric and media spin of the democracy wont stop the weak from seeking freedom, nor will the might and arrogance of the democracy stop a freedom fighters bullet,,

Fast fact here for ya,,,, In 1939, the german army was totaly unprepared for a real war, Hitler was terrified that poland might get the jump and attack first,,, and with good reason, the poles were better mechanized than the germans, The german general staff were against the whole invasion idea, and the german public were nervous as hell, But poland screwed up and played into the hands of germany by massing along the border instead of defending in depth and preparing a counterstroke, Poland gave up its greatest advantage, MOBILITY, The germans were able to scout out the weak points in polish defences, and strike at those points,, push deep into poland with their few mechanized formations,, sew confusion behind the polish lines, and draw off the poles from their strong defencive positions, the main body of the german army was then able to walk across the denuded polish defence lines almost totaly unopposed, by the time the poles realized they had made a mistake,, it was too late,, Also the russians invaded from the east,, if this had not happened,, it is posible that the poles might have been able to rally and counter attack,, and germany would have been pushed out, The polish army of 1939 was better armed and equiped,, and just as well trained, plus they had the numerical advantage, the myth of a weak and outdated polish army is just that,, A MYTH, Had poland attacked first,, they would have won easily,, As to the failure of england and france in 1940,,, just bad luck and bad planning,,, Germany was weak, and ill equiped for the war they waged, but they were lucky that their stronger enemys were led by the utterly incompetent,, Poland, England, and France, had all sacked several good generals for various reasons, (mostly political), and as a result,, they had only unimaginitive and often cowardly generals to fall back upon,,, Poland, England and France were defeated by their own generals, and the germans just happened to be ready to exploit the mistakes and blunders of those generals,,,

And game imitates life, there are thousands of accounts of units encountering eachother and simply not bothering to fight, I guess the russians traded some vodka for some german cigarettes, maybe a few cans of sardines got swaped for a few tins of jam, and then the two groups went their seperate ways,

Deep defence, Leave tank hunter teams to guard your flags,, keep your real forces away from the flags, but in position to attack the enemy when they get in range, Off map artilery and TRPs are good,,, go for the light stuff,,, Keep reserves ready to deploy, Dont waste points on uber tanks, Snipers are great recon units, Bunkers are only good if in cover, HQ units- the ones with the "?" in a box, these are your forward HQs, use them for recon and forward defence, Outflank,

Why do i lose??? same reasons that everyone has posted already,, I get cocky, i get stomped,, i get lazy, i get stomped,, and sometimes i just get bad luck, and i get stomped, I dont do the spread sheet thing, nor the fire power to amo load table thing, i'm not that deep into it,, but i do come out better than the other guy most of the time, my best games are minor victorys,,

CM infantry units do not have smoke, they cannot deploy smoke, they are dependent on outside sources for smoke, Artilery and mortars can lay smoke for infantry, but infantry units do not have smoke,,,,,,,, Am i over stating the obvious? YY YY EEEEEEE SSSS Y Y EE SS YY EEEEE SSSSSS YY EE SS YY EE SS YY EEEEEEE SSSSSS ok so i'm being a pest

Just a note,,, No they are not! tall stone bridges CAN be destroyed, but you need 2 full platoons of pioneers to do it,,

Ok,, There are 2 identical T34s, one russian, and one german,, the russian tank crew is staisticly less likely to be familiar with motor vehicles, more likely to be poorly educated peasants, and have a greater tendency to look to authority figures for all decissions,, the german crew is likely to be more familiar with motor vehicles, more likely to be educated, and more likely to show initiative, ,,, These are cultural facts, and they will influence the outcome of a meeting between a russian T34 and a german T34, The germans are better trained in the first half of the war, And they are better led,, This is probably modeled into the game,, thats my take, i could be wrong,

Hullo,, technicaly speaking, Any german panzer with 37 mm gun or better may get lucky against a kv, But if i know i'm going to face a kv, I want a lot of Pz3 with the 50 mm L60 at least, These cute puppys are available from the start, Go for vetran and crack,, You will need a full platoon and will probably loose most of them anyway, for a 1 on 1 sluging match, you need to wait for the long 75, stug, I hate using uber tanks,

While the intent may be to attract history buffs, and re-enactors, the fact remains that yes, the racialist fantasizers will flock to join in for the sake of their delusions,,, Sad but true, the word "Liebstandarte" will draw bigots and hate mongerers,,, Too bad realy.

I love watching my units do stupid things, Even if they do get slaughtered in the process, But I've never seen a pioneer squad comit suicide that way before,

Although its not a Stalingrad scenario, It can be considered technicaly to be stalingrad related,,I like Alpine Breakout, The italian Alpini divisions were unbreakable, and they taught the russians the true meaning of fear,

Quick translations for ya, "These feild rations are giving me the ****s" "I should have stayed in Hamburg with Lilly" "Somebody smells like a whorehouse" "Hey Kurt, go ask those russians for some vodka" "Thats it, I'm transfering to the luftwaft" "Does this overcoat make me look fat?" "Oops" "Who ordered this rotten weather?" "Oh no, they killed Fredrick, He still owes me 20 marks"

As far as i am aware, soviet ap ammo was not very good, at least not in the early to mid war period, Later ammo seems to have been better made, I suspect that a lot of Soviet equipment was poorly made in order to facilitate greater volume of production, quantity over quality

hi, yes this murderin redskin heathen savage injun, would if required to pick one,, chose to serve in the german navy, on their only aircraft carrier, the one that spent the whole war in port and was never fired upon because everyone knew it was full of looted art treasures, dusting the paintings and statues, and periodicly washing the deck, my weapon, a broom, The kreigsmarine was (as far as i know),, the least evil group of palefaces on earth at that time, still evil, but not as evil as say;;;;the newly greened, blue devils,

the use of split squads is not itself 'gamey', the split squad comand does simulate the spreading out of ones troops to make your entire squad harder to spot and hit, this is tactical common sense, however,,,,, the over reliance on split squads can be gamey, if taken to extremes

I get that problem a lot,, and I havent changed a thing, its always the blue screen with "FATAL EXCEPTION OE", it usualy takes restarting my comp 5 or 6 times, I find that deleting the game and reinstaling it works for about 3 weeks, Then it starts again , more fatal exception oe,

I often use half squads, both on defence and offence, they can lay more fire and are harder to spot and/or hit, they can be fragile yes,, but when they hold, they rock,, and when properly spread out, they hold together well under fire, , If a half squad does break and run, the other half is still there fighting, On the down side, they pin faster and take longer to recover if pinned, so moving under fire can be slow,

hi para,, split squad into 2 teams,, the smg team goes first move to contact ,, and hide,, add 10 second delay to lmg team and move to contact,fire arc to max range ie 400 meters, this way the rifle/smg team is forward on recon, while the rifle/lmg team is 10 seconds behind to help them if they get in trouble,, do it in short advances,, trying to cross the whole map is suicide, with 3 squad platoons ,, spread out but keep all squads within comand range of platoon hq, the 30 meter gap is variable, can be up to 50 meters, never less than 20 sq,1 >>>>>>short to contact& hide 30 meter gap hq sq, sq,2 covering 30 meter gap sq,3 >>>>>>short to contact & hide sq 1 & 3 are split into teams, lmg team is 10 seconds behind smg team, sq 2 is not split, unless cover is scarce, then sq 2 smg team is slightly ahead of lmg team,,, any hmg or mortar should be behind the hq ,,, sqads 1 and 3 move on first turn, sqad 2 moves to line on 2nd turn, hq and heavy wpns move up on 3rd turn, repeat untill you make contact, with 4 squad platoons, do same , keep 4th sq in reserve, ie behind heavy weapons, once you get close to the enemy, use sneak command ,, again,, short distances, Of course i could be doing everything wrong,, but it seems to work,,,

Zionism is to judaism what nazizm is to christianity, namely a nasty and hatefull disease infecting an otherwise fairly reasonable religion, Sharon has made hatefull and racist statements to the media and many jews have expressed their disgust that such a criminal should be hailed as a representitive of the jewish religion, All racialists make unfounded and arrogant claims, So sharon could have made the claim being quoted by steiner14, it would certainly fit the man, Most responsible jews reject zionism the way that most responsible christians reject nazizm, but in every group there are a few evil and malignant criminals who spew racialist dogma and doctrine to advance their own sick fantasys of so-called 'racial superiority' and 'racial purity', I suspect that steiner14 is a zionist, But i could be wrong, He could be a neo nazi,, Both groups have a lot of germanic names, As well as similar ideologys,,, as to the ski question,, ski troops are about mobility, keep that mobility as long as posible,

In the feild, the average german adjusted his uniform for the climate,, Perhaps some mods to reflect this fact??? Also the lack of long coats in the game could be addressed, A lot of germans wore long overcoats during winter, Also the forage cap, its not in the game and it should be, The boat cap was less common but also worn in the east ,, Henrick, now dead, served in the east for the entire campaign, He told me that he wore russian sleeves on his tunic, He also told me that uniforms faded over time, The feild grey turning to a dirty grey/green, and eventualy becoming a brownish colour, Helmets were usualy covered with cloth, and sometimes wraped with string or twine, The wearer could weave twigs, leaves and grass into the string for added camoflage, As the war dragged on, uniforms departed further from the parade ground standard, becoming increasingly individualized, untill the uniform itself became little more than a basic kit to be built upon, By mid 43 certainly, a german platoon had a mish mash of diferently dressed men, Althought the basic features of the standard uniform were there, The way the uniform was worn, and the various modifications added to it,, Plus the use of captured clothing and some civilian odds and ends, All affected the way the whole platoon looked, A Heer private might be wearing captured russian officers trousers, a faded tunic, and a squashed forage cap, His helmet might be painted olive green or kahki, it might even have been lost ages ago,, Because the german army was not properly supplied with adequat winter clothing, many items of captured russian clothing were worn,, Adding to the general mess was the fact of orphaned troops, Men who had as individuals, become separated from their units and were included into other units of other branches of the service, These men usualy retained their old uniforms and insignias,, This probably hasn't helped a bit, but a mod reflecting the diversity of uniforms would be interesting to see,, It would also probably be a pain to make,,